Direction générale des finances (essentially the French IRS) may order Google France to pay as much related to “noncompliance” last year. TechCrunch reports:

The French weekly Le Canard enchaîné (which has an excellent track record for investigations) first obtained a letter that the Direction générale des finances sent to Google France asking it to pay $1.3 billion (€1 billion) in tax penalties. Most of Google France’s revenue could go directly to Google’s European headquarters in Ireland where the corporate tax is only 12.5 percent.

Google France denied being notified of such a tax bill and said it will “continue to cooperate with the French authorities.” Government spokeswoman Najat Vallaud-Belkacem wouldn’t comment on the report in the weekly Canard Enchaine, except to say that if there were a tax probe, it would be covered by laws on fiscal secrecy.

Add all of this to the antitrust-related issues Google still faces in Europe, and the company has its hands quite full on the continent.